The NCBI is one of the most important sources of biological data. The centre provides access to information on 28 million scholarly articles through PubMed and 250 million DNA sequences through GenBank. More importantly, records in the [50 public databases] (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/guide/all/#databases) maintained by the NCBI are strongly cross-referenced. As a result, it is possible to pinpoint searches using almost 2 million taxonomic names or a controlled vocabulary with 270,000 terms.

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Jixing Liu

Reading And Writing

Data Scientist

China